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by _huayra_ 3y ago
> But if you live in the house, then just considering appreciation and expenses leaves out a huge benefit: you have a place to live without spending any other money. What matters at the end of the day are the irrecoverable costs. When re
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
You can always try this out first by searching for contract work as if you were in your home country. Just set up a website (perhaps not using your real name, in case your employer gets suspicious) and see if you can actually seek out the w
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
When I lived in the UK for a bit, iirc people would use the term "builder" where I would say "contractor". At least in American English vernacular, saying "he's a contractor" either means he builds houses,
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
We can all have static IPs, but if you fragment the space too heavily (e.g. your home having an adjacent address as someone else on the other side of the country / world), no AS will want to carry your traffic. It's simply not fea
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
I was annoyed by a lack of support for git worktrees in my current employer's dependency system (think virtualenv from python, but for everything). I fixed some scripts to be worktree dependent and tested it out thoroughly on the CLI,
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
"Display Total Price (tm)" ...much further down the page in small font... Total Price (tm) is our proprietary number we just make up because we actually hate you, our customer, and want to bamboozle you into spending far more than
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
> From that point I've avoid great common usernames that one day might be too great https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takes-over...
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
Is there a particular subset of the industry you specialize in? Curious where the leetcode-lite/free areas might be (unfortunately I'm not in one of them).
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
I'm adding this to my dotfiles because it just seems so dang useful, but this really seems to be the intersection of elegance and hackery that's the epitome of shell scripting. A close second would be that "fork bomb" th
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
They even added a "reverse incentive": you can park in any of the Amazon garages for free after 4pm or any time on weekends (as long as you leave by 2am, and even then the charges are pretty cheap if you blow past the deadline).
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
Everyone is hired in at a somewhat market rate, but it's the older employees who have become complacent and don't want to leave that are being underpaid. I know Blind is basically programmer 4chan, but if any TC postings on there
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
I'm still new at the company, but it seems like promotions are basically (at best) the accumulated COLA adjustments one ought to have been given, but they make it seem like some performance-based thing. Indeed, I have a RSU vesting sch
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
In reality, there is no such thing as a "bank" in the sense that it's a big vault of money so you don't lose it in a house fire. Every bank today is really a Highly-Levered Bond Fund. If we increase FDIC insurance to 100
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by _huayra_ 3y ago
I'm glad you pointed this out. The parent comment to yours is the equivalent of people seeing a big red map of the US during the presidential race and saying "how come the Democrats win when there's so much red?!", as if
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Jon Stewart recently did a fantastic interview with the defense secretary where he grilled her on this: https://www.c-span.org/video/?527213-1/comedianjon-stewart-d...
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
The problem is that of financial opportunity cost: the money keeping the "tank line" active by ordering excess tanks would likely be much better spent on other programs (or even merely not further ballooning the debt). Spending th
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
When my neighbor's job gets taken away by ChatGPT, it's a recession. When mine does, it's a downright depression!
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
You got it, but also add: likely dealer bankruptcies because the overhead is absolutely bonkers (and is often required by brands to set up a dealership; every brand wants a bunch of air-conditioned space to show off their new models!). This
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
It just means they're not going to pay to float the cost of the car from the manufacturer. iirc the dealers "buy" the cars from the manufacturer, then resell them to the customers. In the interim, they must carry this floatin
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
There is a "lowest price guarantee" on Google flights now, wherein they will reimburse you the difference if the flight goes lower in price than if you buy it at that time (through their platform / booking, at least). To me,
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I'm sure an actual OpenSUSE expert can correct me, but there is some "dependency SAT solver" that SUSE has that resolves software versions. Sometimes it can't figure out what to do, so it'll spit out some prompt dur
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Does anyone work (or worked in the past) for a defense contracting company? I'm curious what the environment is like (e.g. is it a pressure cooker using ancient coding standards where everything requires a bunch of people with shiny me
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Did you consider other RHEL-compatible distros (e.g. Alma, Rocky, or even Oracle Linux which I've found to work quite well despite the negativity towards Oracle)? I'm glad to hear the Debian update process is smooth, as I'm g
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I've been having great success running their rolling release (Tumbleweed). I've basically rolled the same install forward for almost a decade on some machines with no real issues. For people who want the "batteries-included&q
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I'm pretty sure HELOCs can be called any, iirc, but I'm not sure if fail to pay the call means they put a lien on your house or force you into foreclosure. When people say "you should buy real estate as an investment because
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
As someone who has TAed a wide variety of undergrad (mostly systems / OS) classes and mentored new-grad hires and interns, my observation is that universities are under tremendous pressure to prepare graduates with "go-to-market&q
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
It's been such great schadenfreude to watch all of the libertarian tech bros beseech the FDIC and other government agencies to save their sorry selves. It's all about that FrEeDoM until your money goes poof I suppose...
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
The FDIC kinda reminds me of one of the few bureaucracies in the US that: a) serve the American people (and not some shadowy cabal of billionaires intent on squeezing the average Jane and Joe in every conceivable way via capturing the tools
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Was the Deluxe support helpful? I've also got into situations where I'm not sure about a particular thing (e.g. inadequate withholding for RSUs), and I don't want to pay Intuit more $$$ to talk to a CPA with these questions!
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
BMW = "Bring My Wallet" because those multi-thousand $$$ shocks won't replace themselves for free after 4 years In the US it seems like they're built to barely make it to the end of the leasing period and then implode. T

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